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thinking about how, since while Louisa is vv important to the plot of Joe Country, it's technically mostly an extra-curricular exercise for her, so as long as her actress is back there are SO MANY ways they could reintroduce Louisa and not even just back into Slough House (at first) and nom nom nom
Some Sentences Sunday
Tagged by the wonderful @mellaithwen
Here's a little bit from the next chapter of Fleuve
“Catherine! Get away from the …” Louisa yelled. Her head dropped, clattering against the hardwood floor and sending the cymbals ringing again between her ears. The world spun as the assassin’s hand latched on around her throat instead. Louisa stumbled, vision swimming and lights flickering, back up to her feet as she tried to heave in any trace of air that could make it through his punishing grip. “Might as well just kill me,” Louisa wheezed. She didn’t have a way to get him whatever it was he wanted. And selfishly she didn’t want to watch him if he did get through the door to Catherine and River. He had likely already cut down Shirley and Marcus if he had made it this far. But there was no reaction, not even a flicker, on the face of her assailant. And then her body went through the door. Louisa felt the full force of the solid wood against her shoulder and then it gave way with a swift kick next to her hip.
No pressure tagging @fatrainbowcat @tarttygoodness @cartwrong @nativestarwrites @joecountry
Eight Sentence Sunday
From Captive Audience Ch9
“You were a good competitor Agent Guy. I do hope you don’t make the same mistake my son did.” River was not without flaw and honestly there could be ten million mistakes that Frank could be talking about. She also had no clue what River had told Frank during his captivity. The obvious one would be underestimating the depth of Frank’s control and manipulations. River had sat there across from this mad man just having a chat. There was also River’s tendency to charge in head first without thinking; maybe he was hoping that she would do that with the bomb. Or maybe he had known that he had lost and was just trying to make one last attempt at fucking with her.
River "love-me-love-me-love-me" Cartwright. He wants to play tough but constantly longs for validation.
0 chance I could ever successfully hide a stolen diamond in a pint of ice cream, late one night I’d be craving something sweet and be like, “you know what? It’ll be fine in a drawer”
Rivers voicemail for Louisa is so odd:
hey me here, sorry to bother you but as you know, you’re my only friend, anyway, turns out I’m leaving too. *hangs up*
He doesn’t say bye, doesn’t throw in a hope you’re doing well, doesn’t ask her to call him if she wants, just a cryptic message and an allusion to the fact that she was his entire support system before their friend breakup.
The first chapter of Until You Get to the Sea is now on AO3! Thanks to @goblin-mode-activated for beta-ing!
Until You Get to the Sea - Chapter 1 - tenderly_wicked - Slow Horses (TV), Slough House - Mick Herron [Archive of Our Own]
Summary: River feels miserable and worn out and barely copes with his everyday life. With Louisa’s somewhat unusual help, it gets better…until it gets even worse. Sometimes things have to be broken down before being built up again.
The devastation when I realised I'd watched all of Slow Horses...
Also I saw someone bitching about Season 5 and I actually really loved the fact they're starting to show the toll that working in the services is taking on them all.
